Word: antediluvianism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Putnam has received an image from Idaho taken from an artesian well at a great dep h. It is considered by good authorities a specimen of antediluvian...
Upper classmen may be willing to amuse themselves by poring over dusty tomes on "Antediluvian Protoplasms," but the members of '91 require a little harmless excitement occasionally...
...Just when this golden age will arrive, cannot be safely predicted, nor may the present generation hope to see it. Yet, when we look at the debatable point logically, a point at which the divines of England are launching their stores of old saws, proverbs and "antediluvian nonsense," as Dr. Collier sensibly calls it, all opposition ought and eventually will cease. A letter from one of the leading ministers of England states that "women are inferior to men and consequently their sphere is different," with other statements of the same sort which are by no means arguments that women ought...
...large ruins near Bagdad recent excavations have unearthed more than 10,000 tablets of the most ancient dates, which are covered with Assyrian inscriptions. They have been sent to the British Museum. The London Times conjectures that they are antediluvian...
...flowers held before them advanced up the main aisles with an unimpeachable piccadilly gait. There were many artistic impersonations of Bunthornes and Grosvenors poets freshly and idyllic who might have walked directly from the stage of "Patience." At every step they posed in the most approved mediaeval and antediluvian fashion. The audience rose in a body and, standing upon the seats, roared and applauded. The students acknowledged the compliment, and marched to the three front rows of seats, with the greatest delibration